University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster

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hypnosec writes about a neat little hack using Lego, Raspberry Pis, and Scratch to construct a "supercomputer." From the article: "A team of computational engineers over at the University of Southampton led by Professor Simon Cox have built a supercomputer using Raspberry Pi and Lego. The supercomputer comprises of 64 processors, 1TB of storage (16GB SD Cards in each of the Raspberry Pis) and can be powered on using just a single 13 Amp mains socket. MPI is used for communications between the nodes through the Ethernet port. The team managed to build the core of the supercomputer for under &pound;2500. Named 'Iridis-Pi' after University of Southampton's supercomputer Iridis, software for the supercomputer was built using Python and Scratch. Professor Cox used the free plug-in 'Python Tools for Visual Studio' to develop code for the Raspberry Pi."Lots of pictures of the thing, and a howto on making your own.

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